This study examines problems on the enforcement of maintenance orders of the Syariah Courts. Despite the fact that Syariah courts are guided by comprehensive statutory laws, however, complaints on matters related with maintenance orders are still unresolved. Therefore this study is undertaken to examine and identify problems that have caused the fa

The explosion of global warming and climate change occurs parallel to the raise rise of earth development. These phenomena happen due to the deterioration of atmospheric environment rooted from human activity. Ranges of air pollutants had been discovered. However, this research focuses on airborne particles in particular that comes from the emissio

Among the anthropogenic air pollutant that lead to the global warming, this research focuses on the inhalable dust and respirable dust that comes from the emissions of coal. Recently, the demand of electricity supply in Malaysiais raising and leads to the diversification of its resources towards the non-renewable energy. Coal-fired power plant emis

A three degree of freedom (3-DOF) bench-top helicopter is a simplified aerial vehicle which is used to study the behaviors of the helicopter as well as testing multiple flight control approaches for their efficiency. Designing helicopter’s dynamic control is a challenging task due to the presence of high uncertainties and non-linear behavior. In

Combatting Corruption: Understanding Anti-corruption Initiatives in Malaysia is a new addition to the available works on corruption in Malaysia. This work reinforces the belief that corruption is undeniably a complex problem that is very difficult to eradicate. Referring to many studies and discussions with governmental and non-governmental organis

Existing RGB-D object recognition methods either use channel specific handcrafted features, or learn features with deep networks. The former lack representation ability while the latter require large amounts of training data and learning time. In real-time robotics applications involving RGB-D sensors, we do not have the luxury of both. In this pap

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have historically been considered as the main player in domestic economic activities, as they provide a large number of total business establishment, employment and hence generating primary or secondary source of income for many households including in Indonesia. However, with the financial crisis in 2008 started

The paper aims to explore the administration and management issues of Corporate Share Waqf Model through the experience Waqaf An-Nur Corporation Berhad. The qualitative approach notably interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is used to obtain the experiences and perception on the current practice and the issues related to administration and

Background: The National Health and Morbidity Survey in 2011 estimated that 35.1% (5.7 million) of Malaysian adults aged 18 and older suffer from hypertension. Hypertension is still treated by conventional medicine despite its exact aetiology being unknown. Studies showed that oxidative stress and low availability of nitric oxide (NO) causes an inc

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common cause of amputations in Malaysia. This study aimed to identify the predictive factors for major lower limb amputation among patients with type 2 DM (T2DM) who were admitted to a hospital, in order to reduce its likelihood. METHODS This cross-sectional study involved 218 patients with T2DM who were admitted